[Phpslash-trackers] [ phpslash-Feature Requests-464981 ] admin folder require statements (0.65b1)

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Feature Requests item #464981, was opened at 2001-09-25 15:17
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>Category: None
>Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: luis m (lems1)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: admin folder require statements (0.65b1)

Initial Comment:
just a suggestion:

Inside the folder 'admin' where all *admin.php3 files
reside, all files have the statement:
require("../config.php3");

usually I don't like to keep the config.php3 file in
the root level of the website (for whatever reason,
especially security). I usually put that file inside
the phplib folder, from which all my includes usually
come from, so my path looks something like:
--- .htaccess file ---
php_value include_path ".:/path/to/phplib"

since this file (htaccess) is needed for the
prepend.php3 file to be called, then people should be,
in my opinion, encourage to put the config.php3 file
within their php include_path, and the "admin" folder
files should all call for:
require("config.php3")

this will enhance security.

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>Comment By: nathan hruby (nhruby)
Date: 2001-11-23 10:05

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Not a bad idea but will most likely cause a confilt with
others apps, as pretty much everything has a config.php3 :)

Will try to think up soomehtiing better.  Will probably be
something for 0.7, pending on what happens with the phplib
include methodology.  For now it's not a completly evil
thing to have config.php3 in your DocRoot so long as
everything isn't mode 644 (unless you're the only user on
the box :)

Refiling as a Feature Request and Making it for Later.

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